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Ellwood Thompson's seeks to provide our community with information on the environment, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, the organic lifestyle, eating locally and other similar topics of interest. Use ET's News Feed below to check headlines on the latest developments in these areas. Click "menu" to see all current feeds or use the arrow buttons to scroll through all feeds' headlines.
Articles
Worried about the weather? Partly Sunny: Designs to Change the Forecast reminds us that we're a part of it, and invites us to help make a change for good. Partly Sunny is an exhibition showcasing innovative designs from around the world that focus on solutions to shifting climate conditions. An initiative of students and faculty from Rhode Island School of Design, the exhibition was created to contribute to national conversations about climate change and to illustrate how individual choices and public policies can change the forecast.
Visit RISD's Partly Sunny site to learn more.
Good Reads
Many of the books listed are available for purchase at the store.
We've also formed Ellwood Thompson's Book Club, which meets evenings every other month in the store's Community Classroom to review and discuss book topics. Please check our calendar for book club dates and sign-up for our email newsletter so that we can keep you informed of all store events.
If you have a question about one of the books listed below, or if you'd like to suggest a book, please email the Nichole
Bower at nbower@ellwoodthompsons.com.
Suggested Books
- Full Moon Feast by Jessica Prentice
- Foods That Heal by Bernard Jensen
- Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon
- Local Harvest by Kate de Selincourt
- Eat Here by Brian Halweil
- Slow Food: The Case for Taste by Carlo Petrini
- Eating to Save the Earth by Linda Riebel and Ken Jacobsen
- Eat, Drink and Be Healthy by Walter C. Willett
- Wild Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz
- The Artful Eater by Edward Behr
- Slow Food: Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures of Food by Carlo Petrini
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
- Empty Harvest by Dr. Bernard Jensen and Mark Anderson
- This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader by Joan Dye Gussow * ET Book Club pick September 2007
- Food Not Lawns by H.C. Flores
- Loving and Leaving the Good Life by Helen Nearing
- A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity by William S. Coperthewaite
- The Permaculture Way by Graham Bell
- Permaculture: A Designer’s Manual by Bill Mollison
- The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Barry Wendell
- Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods by Jeffrey M. Smith
- Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm by Linda Faillace
- From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture by Peter Goering, Helena Norberg Hodge and John Page
- Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben *ET Book Club pick July 2007
- Life and Energy in Agriculture by Arden B. Anderson
- The Revolution Will Not be Microwaved by Sandor Ellix Katz
- The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka
- The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan *Features Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms, who provides Ellwood's with local eggs and meat
- Feed the Soil by Edwin McLeod
- Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World by Alan Weisman
- Walk With a White Bushman by Laurens van der Post
- Sharing the World, Sustainable Living and Global Equity in the 21st Century by Michael Carley and Phillipe Spapens
- Stolen Harvest by Vandana Shiva
- Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge by Vandana Shiva
- Radical Simplicity: Small Footprints on a Finite Earth by Jim Merkel
- Cafecito Story by Julia Alvarez
- A World of Presidia: Food, Culture and Community by Anya Fernald and Piero Sardo
- The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
- Visionaries: The 20th Century's Most Inspirational Leaders by Satish Kumar and Freddie Whitefield
- Sippewissett or, Life on a Salt Marsh by Tim Traver
- An Unreasonable Woman by Diane Wilson
Check out the Ellwood Thompson's Blog!
We're proud of the fact that ET's shows up so frequently in local blogs. That tells us we're part of the community we serve, and the open discussion reminds us to listen to our customers and stay flexible to suit their needs. And of course we are thrilled when we get a good mention! Here are a few favorites, local and otherwise:
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Ellwood's Book Club
Join our book club and enjoy reading and discussing books that focus on the environment, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, and other similar topics of interest. We meet every other month in the evening in Ellwood Thompson's Community Classroom. Check What's Happening for current book and date info.
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